I don’t think there’s stigma. Most users use package managers to get their software. For large operating systems, a torrent does help make downloads faster and less expensive when many people begin to seed it (and many FOSS operating systems do offer torrents), but most projects won’t benefit from that.
I personally would not want to go through the hassle of getting the magnet link, putting it in my torrent program, waiting for it to finish, verifying the signature (if there even is one) and the checksum, and only then manually extracting it so that I can use it.
I don’t think there’s stigma. Most users use package managers to get their software. For large operating systems, a torrent does help make downloads faster and less expensive when many people begin to seed it (and many FOSS operating systems do offer torrents), but most projects won’t benefit from that.
I personally would not want to go through the hassle of getting the magnet link, putting it in my torrent program, waiting for it to finish, verifying the signature (if there even is one) and the checksum, and only then manually extracting it so that I can use it.